I made the mistake of balking at some particularly unhinged Ukraine/Russia rhetoric offline yesterday and got called a vatnik, a tankie, a Russia lover and I was even suspected of being pro-Israel and apparently a nazbol Aimee Therese follower or something

I’m not even invested in this shit, I just find the insane saber-rattling and warmongering unsettling desolate

When someone tells you Putler’s going to invade Estonia, Poland and Finland for Lebensraum next if he’s not stopped in Ukraine, just nod your head solemnly

  • miz [any, any]English
    11•11 months ago

    I feel this, but at the end of the day I guess I’m not really interested in socializing with people who can handwave away a man holding his headless child

    • MovingThrowaway [none/use name]English
      8•11 months ago

      I get that, I slowly cut off most of my friend group during the BLM protests for similar reasons. Then sealed the deal by moving to a state where I know zero people lol

      There’s potential within certain structures to coopt or utilize a person’s power without associating with or empowering them, but it’s a very fine line and I am not nearly experienced or smart enough to navigate that. I recall reading or listening to something by an auto union organizer in the 70s and his experiences having to deal with reactionary nonsense among the very coworkers he was trying to organize and advocate for, all the way up to literal white nationalists.

      We live in the belly of the beast and idk exactly what to do about it really